Presentation of the use of recycled Si-kerf in aluminium alloy production in line with Gränges’ strategy for sustainable growth
Presentation of Gränges and its role in ICARUS With a 128-year history, Gränges is a customer-driven, world-leading rolling and recycling aluminium company with a very strong Research & Innovation. Gränges, currently around 2700 employees, has operations in Sweden, Poland, France, China
[VIDEO] ICARUS – Silicon : A strategic and critical raw material
A lot of challenges surround Silicon, a material both strategic and critical, at the center of the ICARUS project. On one hand, this material is responsible for the designation “Silicon Age” of the 20th Century due to its overwhelming use
[VIDEO] ICARUS – Silicon-Kerf recovery & Mono crystalline ingot growth
One of the steps of the manufacturing process of solar silicon wafers consists in shaping silicon ingots, into bricks and into wafers. Wafer slicing leads to a loss of 35% in mass and a contamination of the Silicon-Kerf. ICARUS aims
[VIDEO] ICARUS – M30 General Assembly in Cyprus: Presentation of UCY and project’ advancements
1 month ago, ICARUS' partners joined for the M30 meeting of the project in Nicosia. Theodora Kyratsi and Birgit Ryningen talk about project' advancements, in particular regarding WP6 - High End Applications, in this video filmed at the University of Cyprus.
[VIDEO] First pilot campaign: Production of Silicon metal utilising waste from the PV industry
Northern Silicon AS and SINTEF have joined forces and successfully conducted a first pilot campaign, during which for the first time we produced silicon metal utilising waste from the PV industry. In this campaign, virgin high purity quartz raw material
Participation to the Advanced battery power conference in Aachen 26-28th of April
Knut Mørk (RESITEC) and Anne-Karin Søiland (RESITEC) hold a presentation at the Advanced battery power conference in Aachen regarding the potential of recycled silicon to be used as a new anode material in Lithium-ion batteries. You can find above the poster
Video: silicon waste inventory
During the production of solar panels large resource flows are generated. Currently some largely end up as waste. Here the challenge in re-use is connected to the material properties: the composition, purity and morphology will determine how the current waste
Poster ECT 2022
On 14 September 2022, during the ECT 2022, in Barcelona, University of Cyprus and RESITEC presented a poster about Thermoelectric properties of Mg2.2 Si(x-0.03)Sn(1-x)Bi0.03 (x = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8) compounds based on Si kerf from PV manufacturing: Abstract It is of high
WCPEC 8 sessions
Poster presentations Yijang Xu from SINTEF at the WCPEC-8 in Milano, presenting newest results on the inventory of waste materials from silicon ingot and wafer manufacturing. The associated paper is also available. The poster made by Wolfram Palitzsch and Ingo Röver (LuxChemTech)
Publication of the waste inventory for a circular solar cell production value chain
SINTEF published a deliverable called "Waste inventory for a circular solar cell production value chain". They performed a waste inventory for three important material flows occurring from silicon-ingot and wafer manufacturing in the PV production value chain: Si kerf from